Artificial Intelligence (AI) and GIS, together known as GeoAI, have been used by GIS users for decades. Now that GeoAI is in the mainstream, there are many more opportunities for you to apply these valuable technologies to deliver significant business value. Learn more about the different facets of AI, why you should be using GeoAI, and how GeoAI is being used by your peers to revolutionize their work. Real world examples will focus on the use of GeoAI to support operations and maintenance. Guidance will be provided on how you can get started with GeoAI, along with a list of resources to assist.
Adam Carnow is the Public Works Industry Specialist at Esri. He is a keynote speaker and thought leader. He collaborates with his colleagues, Esri Partners, and customers to lead the successful application of ArcGIS across the public works disciplines. Mr. Carnow has over 30 years... Read More →
Take a self-paced lesson at the Hands-On Learning Lab. The Hands-On Learning Lab is a dedicated space to take free lessons on a variety of GIS and ArcGIS topics. Each selfpaced lesson takes about one hour to complete and includes conceptual information and step-by-step software exercises. We provide laptops and the ArcGIS software needed to complete each lesson. Esri instructors are available to assist with lesson selection and answer any questions you may have.
LESSON LIST - Getting started with ArcGIS
• Exploring ArcGIS • Getting Started with ArcGIS Online • Getting Started with ArcGIS Pro • Getting Started with GIS
Explore a focused topic
• Adding Location-Based Data to a Map • Analysis in ArcGIS Online • Automating Workflows Using Python • Creating Web Apps Using ArcGIS Experience Builder • Data Exploration and Visualization in ArcGIS Online • Data Pipelines in ArcGIS Online • Exploratory Image Analysis in ArcGIS Pro • Discovering Patterns Using ArcGIS Insights • Exploring ArcGIS Field Maps • Getting Started with Arcade • Getting Started with ArcGIS Business Analyst • Getting Started with ArcGIS Notebooks • Getting Started with ArcGIS Survey123 • Getting Started with ModelBuilder • Integrating CAD and BIM Data with ArcGIS • Managing Parcels and Land Records Using the Parcel Fabric • Mapping Clusters with ArcGIS Pro • Mapping in ArcGIS Online • Monitoring Activity Using ArcGIS Dashboards • Performing Deep Learning in ArcGIS Online • Telling Stories with ArcGIS StoryMaps
ESRI provides many tools to help administer your ArcGIS Enterprise. This session will walk you through some of the supported and “un-supported” tools available to help you make informed decisions to administer your ArcGIS Enterprise environment. 1.WebGISDr – Web GIS Disaster Recovery - back up and restore ArcGIS Enterprise deployments, ensuring data and configuration settings can be recovered in the event of a system failure or disaster. 2. System Log Parser tool analyzes ArcGIS Server log files to help diagnose performance issues, errors, and usage patterns by providing detailed reports. 3. EGDB - Health Check tool assesses the overall health and performance of an enterprise geodatabase, identifying potential issues related to storage, performance, and configuration. 4. DataStore tools help manage the ArcGIS Data Store, allowing administrators to configure, back up, restore, and validate the data store for optimal performance and reliability in an Enterprise deployment.
Steve has more than 30 years of experience in the civil engineering and GIS realm. Steve had been an engineering designer/surveyor and project manager for both private and public agencies. He has fulfilled GIS system administrator roles and worked for ESRI as a contractor for the... Read More →
Jason Fetch, Senior Account Manager, Esri Frank Baxter, Regional Manager – Minneapolis, Esri
ArcGIS user types provide secure, role-based access to ArcGIS capabilities from anywhere on any device. At each level, user types increase access to ArcGIS capabilities, apps, and services. This helps to simplify license administration and allows Organizations to scale as the needs of their users grow. This session on the newly updated ArcGIS User Type aims to provide an overview of the enhanced features and functionalities that come with the latest iteration.
RFID technology is the fastest growing asset identification technology in the world. Unlike other asset identifiers such as bar codes, QR codes, RFID uses radio waves to transmit a unique digital identifier and related information. RFID is exploding in popularity in part because it is rugged, passive, scalable for many uses, and does not require line of sight - superior features for marking assets in an outdoor environment. Until recently, the power of RFID was inaccessible to GIS. As more and more organizations use GIS to manage field operations, the disconnect between digital asset maps and the physical world becomes apparent. The cause is simple - digitally represented assets on maps, are difficult to identify in the physical world. This uncertainty of asset identification makes it difficult to create traceable, verifiable, auditable records. This presentation highlights how RFID can be integrated with GIS to deliver faster, and auditable asset management benefits.
Ryan Lindeman, Solution Engineer – Public Safety Team, Esri
Does your organization manage and host events throughout the year? Have you thought about ways to use your GIS system to streamline the planning and management of those events? This session will cover the capabilities of the new Special Event Operations ArcGIS Solution to manage and plan events, create event maps, monitor event day operations and staff, and share information with attendees and the public
Prior studies of spatial crime patterns often turn to the U.S. Census administrative units as proxies for neighborhoods. We know less about the feasibility of using areal interpolation methods to help estimate neighborhood-level regression models. We used ArcGIS Pro spatial interpolation methods to create neighborhood estimates of socioeconomic characteristics based on the Census data. Then, we examined the relationship between neighborhood characteristics, including racial heterogeneity, residential mobility, immigration, and concentrated disadvantage, and crime at several levels of analysis. We demonstrated that the spatial interpolation methods can offer reliable and accurate estimates of neighborhood measures when socioeconomic data are only available at the Census block group and tract levels. This study has important implications for social and systems science research with focus on area characteristics to predict spatially distributed outcomes, including crime.
Field Maps empowers mobile workers with access to up-to-date information, situational awareness, and tools to efficiently and accurately capture and share data from the field, keeping the field and office in sync. For those in the office preparing field workflows, Field Maps provides tools to customize the mobile experience and ensure organizational needs are met. This presentation highlights the latest enhancements and shares what's coming next in Field Maps.
Several departments need updated Street/Structure photos to include in their workflows. Since each department has a different need taking individual photos is not efficient or cost effective. Ideally staff would like to use Google Street View but the outdated photos, licensing, and unpredictable updates make it not ideal. So we looked at creating our own over the past year using ESRI software we already have and cameras that cost just a few hundred dollars. This allows us to get the images we need, control the updates, have full control over the licensing, and can efficiently gather and process the images over a few days. This should be a game changer for City of Wauwatosa and we want it to be a game changer in your community too!
A Geospatial Strategy is a business-oriented plan that defines how your organization will use GIS technology to achieve its goals and support all of your users. This session will provide concepts to help guide organizations through the process of understanding their organizations, planning and developing a Strategy, and implementing it through both organizational and technological changes. Learn some of our best practices and get an inside track to starting this process at your own organization.
There are multiple active funding sources over the next five years for transportation safety projects. Do you know where the most dangerous portions of your transportation network are? If you're going to take advantage of these transportation safety funding opportunities, you'll need to use GIS to power your traffic crash analysis. This session will review how GIS can help you secure funding to improve your transportation safety program effectiveness and how you can take advantage of configurable, commercial off-the-shelf solutions to assist with crash analysis and equity.
Adam Carnow is the Public Works Industry Specialist at Esri. He is a keynote speaker and thought leader. He collaborates with his colleagues, Esri Partners, and customers to lead the successful application of ArcGIS across the public works disciplines. Mr. Carnow has over 30 years... Read More →
Rock County developed a Geospatial Storefront to share data, resources and support to Rock County employees new to GIS technology and users migrating from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro. This presentation will discuss the need, creation and implementation of the storefront as well as lessons learned, tips and tricks and its future.
Jennifer Borlick is the GIS Manager at Rock County Planning, Economic and Community Development. In that role she represents the department on the Land Records committee and the Rock County Land Information Council. She is also a member of the Rock County Diversity and Inclusion Task... Read More →
Ryan Lindeman, Solution Engineer – Public Safety Team, Esri
We live and work in a world that is constantly changing. How can your organization monitor this change as threats, hazards, and other events occur in your city, county, or state? Many organizations have watch centers, facility centers, or emergency operations centers that work to understand the impact to residents and places of interest like critical infrastructure. This session will cover Esri's new Watch Center ArcGIS Solution designed to monitor real-time all-hazard events in and around places of interest and how stakeholders can be notified to inform response. Watch Center incorporates ArcGIS Velocity analytics, ArcGIS Living Atlas feeds, and available partner incident detection feeds to enhance situational awareness.
Generative AI is becoming an invaluable tool for GIS professionals, streamlining everyday tasks such as project planning, workflow automation, and documentation. This presentation explores how AI can assist with automating workflows, drafting and reviewing scripts, answering geoprocessing questions, and refining written content. We will examine the strengths and limitations of AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and GovAI, while also sharing best practices for crafting effective prompts. Additionally, we will address key concerns such as data privacy and job security. By focusing on practical applications, this session will demonstrate how GIS professionals can leverage AI to boost productivity and efficiency in their daily work.
Mike Dagle leads Esri’s ArcGIS Solutions Infrastructure team, leveraging 20 years of experience delivering geospatial solutions. Before joining Esri, he spent 15 years crafting and supporting geospatial solutions within various Michigan government organizations. He currently leads... Read More →
Take a self-paced lesson at the Hands-On Learning Lab. The Hands-On Learning Lab is a dedicated space to take free lessons on a variety of GIS and ArcGIS topics. Each selfpaced lesson takes about one hour to complete and includes conceptual information and step-by-step software exercises. We provide laptops and the ArcGIS software needed to complete each lesson. Esri instructors are available to assist with lesson selection and answer any questions you may have.
LESSON LIST - Getting started with ArcGIS
• Exploring ArcGIS • Getting Started with ArcGIS Online • Getting Started with ArcGIS Pro • Getting Started with GIS
Explore a focused topic
• Adding Location-Based Data to a Map • Analysis in ArcGIS Online • Automating Workflows Using Python • Creating Web Apps Using ArcGIS Experience Builder • Data Exploration and Visualization in ArcGIS Online • Data Pipelines in ArcGIS Online • Exploratory Image Analysis in ArcGIS Pro • Discovering Patterns Using ArcGIS Insights • Exploring ArcGIS Field Maps • Getting Started with Arcade • Getting Started with ArcGIS Business Analyst • Getting Started with ArcGIS Notebooks • Getting Started with ArcGIS Survey123 • Getting Started with ModelBuilder • Integrating CAD and BIM Data with ArcGIS • Managing Parcels and Land Records Using the Parcel Fabric • Mapping Clusters with ArcGIS Pro • Mapping in ArcGIS Online • Monitoring Activity Using ArcGIS Dashboards • Performing Deep Learning in ArcGIS Online • Telling Stories with ArcGIS StoryMaps
Find out how ArcGIS Solutions provide public works solutions that help state and local governments maintain right-of-way assets, coordinate capital investments, and engage the public in effective ways. Get a valuable overview of these available solutions and how they can be implemented.
Mike Dagle leads Esri’s ArcGIS Solutions Infrastructure team, leveraging 20 years of experience delivering geospatial solutions. Before joining Esri, he spent 15 years crafting and supporting geospatial solutions within various Michigan government organizations. He currently leads... Read More →
Much interest and speculation is being focused on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it can help GIS Practitioners in their daily work. This presentation will discuss the possibilities and limitations related to parcel mapping, the generation of digital representation of land ownership, what you can expect, and how to best prepare for its impact.
Frank owns Panda Consulting, a GIS Professional Services company that has existed since 1998. Frank is a recognized authority on GIS and Surveying and Mapping technology, including mapping various types of ownership interest in land. Frank has been involved in GIS and Parcel Mapping... Read More →
Experiencing Experience Builder? Yeah, we are too.
ESRI’s new Experience Builder continues to evolve, slowly finding its place where Web AppBuilder once stood. With great flexibility in configuring specialized, unique experiences, but losses in formatting, widget availability, and direct conversion, Experience Builder becomes as intimidating as it is awe-inspiring. Experience Builder is an experience… and you have to experience it to find out. Start here!
This session showcases the transition from preexisting Web AppBuilders to new solutions with remaining core functionalities. We’ll work through limitations, roadblocks, and general familiarity with the application at hand, discovering what works and what doesn’t.
We’ll create a collaborative place to learn, share, and experience what this application has in store— showcasing case studies, innovative applications, and practical tips and tricks.
It is a common misconception that an organization should use either ArcGIS Enterprise or ArcGIS Online, when in fact many organizations successfully use both. This session will cover how to choose the deployment that best fits your organizational needs. We will talk about the different forms of hybrid patterns that best take advantage of each environment’s unique strengths to build the best possible system and help you plan.
The Data Interoperability Extension is a vital tool for GIS professionals to take their data manipulation and transformation skills to the next level, with minimal programming knowledge required. This presentation focuses on the functionalities of the extension and its application in meeting the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Lead and Copper Rule Revision (LCRR) requirements for smaller municipalities with minimal existing GIS infrastructure. Examples include the mass population of geometry and attributes from Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, and other spatial features. By leveraging the extension's capabilities, professionals can effectively automate data maintenance tasks, reports, and improve workflows.
Learn some tips and tricks to enhance your Hub Site by integrating an app gallery using Experience Builder. ExB provides additional customization and functionality to showcase your apps. This presentation will compare Hub Site's Gallery Cards to the enhanced options in ExB's Card widget.
Nathan started as the GIS Administrator at Sheboygan County in November of 2021. He is involved in managing the County's GIS infrastructure, which includes GIS servers, SQL databases, and ArcGIS Online. Before moving to Sheboygan, Nathan spent 15 years in Michigan working in community... Read More →
ArcGIS Data Pipelines provides ArcGIS Online organizations the ability to integrate, clean, and prepare data in a streamlined and automated manner, without writing code. The intuitive, drag-and-drop user interface allows users to ingest data from external sources, apply data engineering tools to clean, integrate, and format the datasets, write the result out to a web feature layer, and use across the ArcGIS system.
Over the past ~2 years the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and undertaken the ambitious process of modernizing all of our GIS mapping applications from JavaScript 3.X based technology to modern JavaScript 4.X technology.
The project included both internal and external facing applications comprising approximately 50 Geocortex applications and more than 50 ArcGIS Online-based applications. The coordination, communication, and education in new technology presented both challenges and opportunities for the DNR's GIS developer and user community.
This presentation will give a high-level overview of DNR's Journey to modern web GIS.
What's your cloud posture? Happily on-prem and there to stay, thank you very much? Cloud-curious? Straddling on-prem and cloud resources - nervously? comfortably? All in on this stuff?!
In this presentation, we will review and discuss some current tips, tricks, and options for deploying, optimizing, and managing your ArcGIS Enterprise in the cloud.
Topics will include: -> leveraging OS servers for performance and economy -> how to do the scaling thing -> packing your bags and making a reasonable travel plan for that migration into your new cloud deployment -> setting up data-adjacent workspaces for ArcGIS Pro options -> techniques for syncing with on-premises systems
Our team provides the necessary expertise to help clients... define and execute strategies to optimize their use of geospatial technologyimprove locational know-howstreamline workflows and practices. It's our job to help people achieve greater efficiency, make decisions informed... Read More →
Managing addresses is an essential act of local government and is critical to providing efficient services to a community (911, property taxes, billing, delivery). Many communities face challenges maintaining high quality information and collaborating between departments and jurisdictions. This session will focus on using a set of capabilities to maintain address data and orchestrate workflows that connect the people, process, and technology in a seamless web experience.
